Barbara Greenlee Toomer, West Valley City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, February 25, 2006: Saving the legacy tape no. 756

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B RBARAGRE L F BR BAR: No he di d. BEC: I m sorry to hear that. Tell me about your school years. You went t elementary school and junior high? BAR: No, there was no junior high in that day. I went to Saint Monica's lementary School and Saint Monica's High School. So I went to elementary school for eight years and then I went to high school. Actually, I only went from the sixth grade to the eighth grade at Saint Monica's. It was during the Depression. Obviously, people weren't buying real estate. My uncle had some relationship with the Edgar Rice Burroughs Ranch. He offered my father the house in return for being the caretaker of the ranch. So from the time, probably, I was in the first grade until when I was in the fifth grade, we lived on this ranch, the Edgar Rice Burroughs Ranch in Tarzana, California. BEC: That had to be an interesting experience. BAR: It was. It was huge and it was beautiful. Every time I see a wildfire come down, like, you know, when the Santa Anna winds blow and you see those fires come down those mountains, I remember there were two or three times that wildfires came quite close when we lived there. BEC: Is that right? BAR: Yes, it was interesting. We had some fun times too. There were a lot of chickens and rabbits and dogs and peacocks. I remember specifically, one time, we had a broody chicken. Do you know what a broody chicken is? BEC: I've raised chickens, yes. BAR: You know what a broody chicken is and you know that's not what you really want. You don't want a broody chicken. So my father threw these two broody chickens 4